Sokol: In Montenegro, Greater Serbian elements control the government, they are on their way to completely marginalizing the Europe Now Movement

In Montenegro, Greater Serbian elements practically control the government and are on their way to completely marginalizing the nominally strongest party, the Europe Now Movement.

This was stated at the plenary session of the European Parliament held in Strasbourg, said Croatian MP Tomislav Sokol.

At a session of the European Parliament, members discussed the situation in Serbia.

Sokol said that attempts to justify the tragicomic failure to organize a meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and US President Donald Trump represent the latest peak of shameless manipulation of the public, and that there will be no peace in Southeast Europe until Serbia undergoes a true catharsis and faces its own failures and illusions.

"Serbia increasingly looks like the black hole of Southeast Europe. We have known for a long time that it is an authoritarian state with complete state control over all segments of society, especially the media, which the government uses in whatever way it sees fit. The latest attempts to justify the tragicomic failure to organize a meeting with President Trump represent the latest peak of shameless manipulation of the public that has not been seen in Europe for a long time. And whether Vučić will manage to recover by the parade in Moscow is still uncertain," said Sokol.

He added that "what we are talking about is very serious."

"The idea of ​​the Serbian world is at the heart of aggressive hegemonic policies that led, among other things, to the Homeland War in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. Let's take just the example of Montenegro, where Greater Serbian elements practically control the government and are on their way to completely marginalizing the nominally strongest party, the Europe Now Movement. One of the key factors in this is the Serbian Orthodox Church, whose patriarch clearly demonstrated in Moscow that he sees a key ally in Russia, not in the West," said Sokol.

Serbian hegemonism, he added, is a much deeper problem than Vučić himself.

"Until Serbia undergoes a true catharsis and faces its own failures and illusions, there will unfortunately be no peace in Southeast Europe. Such a Serbia has no place in the European Union," said Sokol.